The tower bock continues to send huge plumes of smoke across London this morning now dawn has broken.

Firefighters, police and the ambulance service remain on the scene.

Transport for London said there was no service between Hammersmith and Edgware Road on the Circle and Hammersmith and City lines, while the police said the A40 was closed in both directions, owing to the fire.

A witness who gave his name as Rio told Sky News UK he could see the fire from his kitchen window. He had been alerted to the blaze by the sound of distant smoke alarms.

It began on one side of the building but has engulfed the block in the last two hours, stretching from the second floor to the top. Rio said fire fighters could not physically reach the upper floors of the block from their trucks.

London ambulance service says it has sent a “number of resources” to the scene, including its specialist hazardous area response team of medics who specialise in provi